The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.