Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

The more you judge, the less you love.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.