Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

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.

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.