Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.

We must have a passion in life.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.

Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.