The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

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

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.