Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the horn

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can be happy in this world

Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public