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A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. - [Retrospection] Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples. - [Christianity] Disgrace is the synonym of discovery. - [Disgrace] Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. - [Experience] Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. - [Liberty] Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day. - [Happiness] In love matters; keep your pen from paper. - [Letters] It is easy to promise, and alas! how easy to forget! - [Promises] Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved. - [Love] Memory is what makes us young or old. - [Memory] My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass. [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre.] - [Worth] O world, how many hopes thou dost engulf! - [Disappointment] Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated. - [Discretion] Perfection does not exist. To understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to desire to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. - [Perfection] Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering. - [Reason] Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind. - [Repartee] Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value! - [Taxes] The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land. - [Devotion] The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart. - [Voice] Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. - [Vanity] Verity is nudity. - [Truth] Women are charged with a fondness for nonsense and frivolity. Did not Talleyrand say, "I find nonsense singularly refreshing"? - [Folly] Listen, dying one! There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. [Fr., Ecoute, moribonde! Il n'est pire douleur Qu'un souvenir heureux dans les jour de malheur.] - Le Saule, the opposite of his opinion in his "Un Souvenir" [Sorrow]
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