We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.