We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.

Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.