Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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.

Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, he will use your weakness against you

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

This time I hurt her more than she loves me.

Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.

All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power

Liberty is a slow fruit.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.