Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.