It is easier to win love than to keep it.
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
Tact is good taste in action.
We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.