Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

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

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

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

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.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.