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

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Satire is the disease of art.

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

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.