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

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

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.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.