Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God..

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it..

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile ….

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came tog….

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand th….

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smil….

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds..

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin..

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them..

There is nothing original; all is reflected light..

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like anci….

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divi….

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman..

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to….

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space..

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!.