Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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?

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

We love because we love.