Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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