Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.