Women of the world crave excitement.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

Satire is the disease of art.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.