Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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.

Annoyances are strangely not so annoying when the person responsible has endeared himself to you.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.

I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.