To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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.

Do not trust a person who never fails. Failure is the incubator for character development.

Coincidence sometimes volatile

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Thank you for not growing to hate humans.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

If people hate me they hate me.