Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.