Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

There is no magician like love.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.