When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.