Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.