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

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.

To weep is not always to suffer.

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 …

Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so:—