"Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."

"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have said."

"Everything is in a state of flux on this earth. Nothing keeps a form for long, and our affections, which are attached to external things, pass and change as they do."

"Women do wrong to complain of the inequality of man-made laws; this inequality is not of man's making, or at any rate it is not the result of mere prejudice, but of reason."

"I detest the great, their condition, their maxims, their vices, and I should detest them still more if I were one of them."