The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

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!

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.