Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.