Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.