How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.