There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

Years do not always make age.

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.

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.