Love is reducing the universe to one being.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

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

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

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.