A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

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

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.