[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.