Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

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

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.

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

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.

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.