[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

Life, for me, is living among my friends.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

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

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.