It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

Pray God, keep us simple.

Frequent the company of your betters.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.