When women love, they forgive everything...

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

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.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.