Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.