Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!