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.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.