Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Women of the world crave excitement.
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.