Quotes from Arsene Houssaye

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

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?

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

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.

Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, one's self and one's other self.