False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

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

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice