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

Women of the world crave excitement.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

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