Order is the key to all problems.
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
It is only the dead who do not return.
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
Haste is a poor counselor.
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me.
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.
Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues.
Everything was believed except the truth.
We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.
The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.