True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

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

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.