From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.