If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.