Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

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

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.