Ce qui est fort beau est nécessairement toujours vrai. - Stendhal

Society being divided in strips like bamboo, the great business of a man is to ascend to the class superior to his own, and all the effort of this class is to prevent him from ascending.

Exalted by a sentiment of which she was proud, and that overcame all her arrogance, she was reluctant to let a moment of her life go by without occupying it with some remarkable deed.

Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.