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

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

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

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.