Occupation: Journalist Birth: November 24, 1808 Death: September 29, 1890
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom..
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with….
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked..
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty..
We can invent only with memory..
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious..
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have..
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has..
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end..
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided..