It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.
Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.
Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?