Arsene Houssaye
Always have old memories, and young hopes.Collection: Life
There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.Collection: Self
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.Collection: Happiness
Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.Collection: Sometimes
The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.Collection: Heart
The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.Collection: Lost
Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.Collection: Spring
The Parisienne is not in fashion, she is fashion.Collection: Fashion
Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.Collection: Income
Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.Collection: Women
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.Collection: Hope
Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?Collection: Views
Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?Collection: Genius
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.Collection: Women