there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.