Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.