You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.