It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.