Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

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

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.