We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.