"The greatest pleasure is to be loved."

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."

"How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?"

"Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught."

"Woman is a creature who is always in the wrong when she has a lover and in the right when she has none."