All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.