"I can English understand, mais je prefère répondre en français pour être plus precis (... but I prefer to respond in …"

"Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden."

"A child becomes for his parents, according to the education he receives, a blessing or a chastisement."

"Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."

"The flavour of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, …"

"For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs!"

"What we gain by experience is not worth what we lose in illusion."

"We salute more willingly an acquaintance in a carriage than a friend on foot."

"We like to give in the sunlight, and to receive in the dark."

"To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbour in the tempest; but with…"