Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

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 endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.