"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."
"All happiness depends on courage and work."