It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.