A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.