Elegance is exquisite polish.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

Love is the pass-key to the heart.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.