women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.