The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.