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

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.