One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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.

Right beneath the numerous sufferings in life lies the precious gift called success.

Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poorso the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

Pure truth is for God alone.

Get still, get calm, and let your true self out.

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.