Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Mother and wife are saints, If they are not together

If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.

Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God, -- / Not lost, but gone before.

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.