As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?