When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.