Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

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

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

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

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.