A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.