However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

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

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

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