Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
A library implies an act of faith.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.