Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.