A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.