Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.