And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.