One hour of love has a whole life in it.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.