Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.