Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.