Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.