The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

- Arsene Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

- Arsene Houssaye

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

- Arsene Houssaye

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

- Arsene Houssaye

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

- Arsene Houssaye

The Parisienne is not in fashion, she is fashion.

- Arsene Houssaye

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

- Arsene Houssaye

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

- Arsene Houssaye

Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

- Arsene Houssaye