The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

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