What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.

COLD. Healthier than heat.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.