... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

The return makes one love the farewell.

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.

Great artists have no country.

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.