An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; “they will both fall into the ditch.”

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.