The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
Alphonse de LamartineIf one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de LamartineNature 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.
Alphonse de Lamartine