Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.