No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.