Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.