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

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.