Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

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

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Haste is always ungraceful.

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.