A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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.