Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.