Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
