The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

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

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.