Great Throughts Treasury

"The laws of decency enforce themselves."

"Doubt the man who swears to his devotion."

"Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination."

"Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases! "

"Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception. "

"The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. "

"Untimely conduct is the discord of manners. "

"When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions."