A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.
Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.