In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.