40 (age)

happiness

is the age at which a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

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

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

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

is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved In youth.

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved In youth.

is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens heaven to us in the midst of every tempest.

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