When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.