More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.