Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

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.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If women only knew the extent of their power!

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