"No one would ever come into a mixed party with spectacles on his nose, if he did but know that at once we women lose all pleasure in looking at him or listening to what he has to say.
"Free-and-easiness, where there ought to be respect, is always ridiculous. No one would put his hat down when he had scarcely paid the ordinary compliments if he knew how comical it looks.
"There is no outward sign of courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation. The proper education would be that which communicated the sign and the foundation of it at the same time.
"Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
"There is a courtesy of the heart. It is akin to love. Out of it arises the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
"A freely offered homage is the most beautiful of all relations. And how were that possible without love?
"We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
"No one is more a slave than the man who thinks himself free while he is not.
"A man has only to declare that he is free, and the next moment he feels the conditions to which he is subject. Let him venture to declare that he is under conditions, and then he will feel that he is free.
"Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.