Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.