Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

Speech happens to not be his language

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.