 Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. |
| To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. |
| The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. |
| Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. |
| I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. |
| I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. |
| Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. |
| Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. |
| No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. |
| Life is the flower for which love is the honey. |
| Wisdom is a sacred communion. |
| Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. |
| To love beauty is to see light. |
| The ox suffers, the cart complains. |
| Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. |
| Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! |
| Toleration is the best religion. |
| Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. |
| What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! |
| No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. |
