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

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.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.