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

Reading brings us unknown friends

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.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.