Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.