In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
No woman dares express all she thinks.
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.