Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the colour from a man's entire existence.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.