Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.