Such qualities, mademoiselle, are but germs in a young girl.
Hear the whole truth,--do I not owe it to you in return for your intoxicating flattery?
If it is a glorious thing to marry a great renown, remember also that you must soon discover a superior man to be, in all that makes a man, like other men.

He therefore poorly realizes the hopes that attach to him as a phoenix.

He becomes like a woman whose beauty is over-praised, and of whom we say: "I thought her far more lovely." She has not warranted the portrait painted by the fairy to whom I owe your letter,--the fairy whose name is Imagination.
Believe me, the qualities of the mind live and thrive only in a sphere invisible, not in daily life; the wife of a poet bears the burden; she sees the jewels manufactured, but she never wears them.

If the glory of the position fascinates you, hear me now when I tell you that its pleasures are soon at an end.

You will suffer when you find so many asperities in a nature which, from a distance, you thought equable, and such coldness at the shining summit.