The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.