To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.