Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.