Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

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