Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
Resignation is a daily suicide.
Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.