Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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

Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

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