What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.