A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

A little integrity is better than any career.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.