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

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.