One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.