In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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

To speak of love is to make love.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.