One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes. - Alexandre Dumas fils

We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.

Existenta nu mai este decat indeplinirea repetata a unei dorinte continue, sufletul nu mai este decat vestala insarcinata sa intretina focul sacru al dragostei.

To be loved by a pure young girl, to be the first to reveal to her the strange mystery of love, is indeed a great happiness, but it is the simplest thing in the world. To take captive a heart which has had no experience of attack, is to enter an unfortified and ungarrisoned city. Education, family feeling, the sense of duty, the family, are strong sentinels, but there are no sentinels so vigilant as not to be deceived by a girl of sixteen to whom nature, by the voice of the man she loves, gives the first counsels of love, all the more ardent because they seem so pure.