Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

Blushes cannot be counterfeited.

This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

The god of fools is a fool just like them.

Beauty lies in simplicity.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.