Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.