but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.