Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.
Firmness is great; persistency is greater.
After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.