We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.