Weak natures are reassured as easily as they are alarmed.
The most incurable wounds are those which are made by the tongue or the eye, by mockery or by disdain.
To two lovers the rest of the world is but landscape.
Expiation is not obliteration.
A virtuous woman has a fibre more or a fibre less than other women. She is stupid or sublime.
Language in the magnificence of its phases has nothing as varied and as eloquent as the correspondence of the eyes and the harmony of smiles.
The slave has his vanities; he would prefer to obey only the greatest of despots.
Customs are the hypocrisies of nations.
It is not enough for a man to be honest; he must appear so.
If a man is superstitious he is never thoroughly miserable. A superstition is a hope.