She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?