There is nothing original; all is reflected light.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.