You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil..

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband..

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity..

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of ….

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune..

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is….

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth….

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo..

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and….

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God..

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins..

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in sto….

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion..

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theolo….

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Me….

Love is a game in which one always cheats..

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art..

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the b….

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste..

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad..

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze o….