Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.