Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

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.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

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

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.