What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.