He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.

Be kind. Aim for my heart.

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.