We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

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.

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.

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

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

Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.