France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.