Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
Necessity is the spur of genius.
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.