Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be….

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship..

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to….

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly..

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!.

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging..

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness..

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself..

One must choose between loving women and knowing them..

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet..

Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth..

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it..

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love..

Old age is a woman's hell..

The loss of friends is a tax on age!.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices..

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell..

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war..

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day..

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful..

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman..