Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.