The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

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.

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

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

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

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

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.