It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.