Improvement is nature.
Patience and gentleness is power.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.
The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.