Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

We can invent only with memory

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others

The more things change, the more they are the same

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses