How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

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

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.

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

Do not sanction an absurdity.

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