Passion is born deaf and dumb.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.