It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.
In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
There are as many sorts of women as there are women.
Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.