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.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

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.

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

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

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.