Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.