"Le désir de s'enrichir est leur passion dominante, et à vrai dire leur seule passion."

"The King, with whom I had this Discourse, was so affected with the Truth of it, that, You are in the right, said he t…"

"... many Europeans today go to Pelasgians, who are no less distant or savage, and for equally slight gains, to discov…"

"Men call physicians only when they suffer; women, when they are merely afflicted with ennui."

"To weep is not always to suffer."

"If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of oth…"

"Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl's virtue."

"The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the …"

"A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion."

"Esteem is the strongest of all sympathies."