"Virtue and Love are two ogres: one must eat the other."

"To love is to make a compact with sorrow."

"Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains."

"In a tête-à-tête we are never more interrupted than when we say nothing."

"It is the merit of those who praise that makes the value of the commendation."

"To envy anybody is to confess ourselves his inferior."

"In love, great pleasures come very near great sorrows."

"Benevolence rejuvenates the heart, exercise, the memory, and remembrance, life."

"A woman would be in despair if nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear."

"I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds."