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

Inconstancy is the child of satiety.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

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.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.