Behind every fortune there is a crime.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.