Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?