Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.
The sunset glow of self-possession.
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.