Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.