Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.