Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.