Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.

We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.

The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.

No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

Everything was believed except the truth.