A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

The past is getting clearer and clearer

Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

Let love be your greatest aim.