Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

The loss of friends is a tax on age!

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

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.