A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.