Make your best thoughts into action.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.
Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.
Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.
Elegance is exquisite polish.
Dignity and love do not blend.
How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
It is never permissible to say, I say.
The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.
Romance is the poetry of literature.
Love is the pass-key to the heart.
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.