Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.