To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.