Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.