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

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.