Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.