Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
Tact is good taste in action.
It is easier to win love than to keep it.
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.