Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.