They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.