Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.