Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.