Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.