You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.