Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.