Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.