When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

Reading brings us unknown friends

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.