A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.