Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

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

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully