Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

The return makes one love the farewell.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings