In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

Love knows nothing of modesty.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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