There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.