Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.