For avarice begins where poverty ends.

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.