Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.