In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.