There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.