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

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.