Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.