C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Mme. Dufresnoy

A gentleman is always a gentleman; but the butterflies of society differ as much in their moods as does that insect in its colors.

And by and by, will there come a time, when souls congenial will no more say adieu?

Obtuseness is the rule, not the exception.

Weeping is not alone woman’s weapon, but also a specific for transient sorrows.

Women are happier in their illusions than in their most agreeable experiences.

Wrinkles of the face may be successfully hidden by art; not so with the wrinkles of the heart.