The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Ah, there are no longer any children!
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.