Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

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.

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

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.