 The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. |
| The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. |
| Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. |
| Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better. |
| Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. |
| What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? |
| Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. |
| Love is the poetry of the senses. Topics: Love |
| Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Topics: Friendship |
| Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. |
| One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Topics: Marriage |
| Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. |
| Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. |
| Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. |
| It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. |
| First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. Topics: Funny Love |
| A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. |
| At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. |
| We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. |
| A mother who is really a mother is never free. |
