Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.