I am not deep, but I am very wide.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.