Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.