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.

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.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

Every artists wants to be applauded

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'