Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.