How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.