The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

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

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.