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

Ségur

Men make laws; women make manners.

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

The beautiful is always severe.

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult.