The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.