Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.