New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

There is no protection against slander.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.