Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.