Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.