It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

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