Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?