Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.