Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.

Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.

Do not sanction an absurdity.

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.