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

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

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