"Aimer qui vous aime, admirer qui vous admire, en un mot, être l'idole de son idole! ... C'est trop, c'est dépasser le…"

"Les esprits dont la mission est de détruire les préjugés, sont précisément ceux qui ont la plus de préjugés, et qui l…"

"Quand on veut dessécher un marais, on ne fait pas en voter les grenouilles!"

"For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessl…"

"There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it."

"Good taste is the modestly of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired."

"Hope, alas! is our waking dream."

"Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees."

"I do not believe in virtue, but I do believe in innocence. They are very different. Innocence is ignorance."

"Our instinct inspires us, — warns us, our intelligence scents out what our reason docs not discover, for instinct is …"