Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society