Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.