Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.