In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.