Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Loving is half of believing.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)