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

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.