You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.