Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

All we are is in the soul.

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.