The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!