The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?