Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.

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