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.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

True love rules especially through memory.