If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

Love which economizes is never true love.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.