Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.