However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

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.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.