An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.