All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honoré de Balzac
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Behind every fortune lies a great crime.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
