If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.