Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.