If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible..

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of cour….

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will..

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity..

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband..

The union of a want and a sentiment..

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment..

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation..

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises….

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless..

Love is the most melodious of all harmonies..

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on th….

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the myst….

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singu….

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young..

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all..

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right..

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utm….

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only..

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man ….