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

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

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.