A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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.

Happiness earned, not given.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes!

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.

I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.

Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.

Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.