Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.