True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.