“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.

When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.