True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.