Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

We are all exceptional cases... Each man insists on being innocent, even if it means accusing the whole human race, and heaven.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Too many have dispensed with generosity to practice charity.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.