To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.