Even women are perfect at the outset.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.