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

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.