Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved