Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.