Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.