Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.
The laws of decency enforce themselves.
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.