Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.