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

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.