The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

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

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

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

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.