At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.