If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.