A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.