Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.