People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

True love rules especially through memory.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.