It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.