Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.