All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.