No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.