When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.