Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.