Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl's virtue

Men call physicians only when they suffer; women, when they are merely afflicted with ennui.

If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of others.

Ah! the spendthrift, love; it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

I have never tasted pleasures so true as those I have found in the study of books, in writing, or in music. The days that succeed brilliant entertainments are always melancholy, but those which follow days of study are delicious; we have …

To weep is not always to suffer.

America, I raised a boy for you. America, you'll find him staunch and true, Place a gun upon his shoulder, He is ready to die or do. America, he is my only one; My hope, my pride and joy, But if I had another, He would march beside his …