Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.