No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.