Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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.

If someone hurts you, he is hurting himself. He may not be able to escape that hurt in his lifetime.

Greatness can only be achieved when an impeccable level of knowledge consistently meets high quality actions.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.

Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.

The Point of Power Is in the Present.

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.