We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

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

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.