Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.