Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.