Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

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

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.