Delphine de Girardin

"Aimer qui vous aime, admirer qui vous admire, en un mot, être lidole de son idole! ... Cest trop, cest dépasser les joies humaines, cest déruber le feu du ciel!"

"It is not easy to be a widow: one must reassume all the modesty of girlhood, without being allowed to even feign its ignorance."

"Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years one does not know how to be rich, or to be loved."

"O, how true it is there can be no tête-à-tête where vanity reigns!"

"Quand on veut dessécher un marais, on ne fait pas en voter les grenouilles!"

"I do not believe in virtue, but I do believe in innocence. They are very different. Innocence is ignorance."