I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

The thing is to dazzle

economy spoils pleasure

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.