Old age is a woman's hell.

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

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

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

Inconstancy is the child of satiety.