A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.