When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
God made only water, but man made wine.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment’s glance.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.