Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.