I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

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.

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

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.