Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.