Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

No woman dares express all she thinks.