The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.