Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her