Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.

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

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.