Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.