Passion is born deaf and dumb.

Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God