A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.