Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.