Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.