A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.