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

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

The contact of two epidermises.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.