Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.