The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!

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