A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

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.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.