Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable..

Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoug….

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women..

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others..

Women's glances express what they dare not speak..

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers..

The more the change, the more it is the same thing..

I am thankful that thorns have roses..

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness..

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin..

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else..

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns ….

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one..

If women only knew the extent of their power!.

The more things change, the more they stay the same..

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing..

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses..

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some..

One expresses well only the love he does not feel..

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty..

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral..