Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.