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.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.