Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.