Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.