Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.