Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.
No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me.
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.
Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues.
Everything was believed except the truth.
We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.
We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.
Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.
The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.