The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

If it's to be, it's up to me.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.