An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.