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

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

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

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has