Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment