One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Youth without faith is a day without sun.