To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

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

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.