Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.