It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.