A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.