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

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.