The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.