The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.

... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.