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

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.