Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

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

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

Old age is a woman's hell.

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.