Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.