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A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked. - [Widows] Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable. - [Self-love] Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness. - [Politeness] Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. - [Display] Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some. - [Dress] Every man has three characters--that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. - [Character] Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances. - [Thought] Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. - [Friendship] If women only knew the extent of their power! - [Self-reliance] One expresses well only the love he does not feel. - [Flirting] Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. - [Talking] Women's glances express what they dare not speak. - [Eyes]
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