I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.