Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much.

The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.

She who boasts of lovers soon has none.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.

Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth – if the latter were unflattering.