The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.