The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.