And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.