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.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.