God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.