All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.