A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
With monuments as with men, position means everything.