The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.