“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
Love“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
Future“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
Love“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
Art“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”
Business“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”
Great“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
Legal“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”
Music“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.”
Smile“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
Alone“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”
Time“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
Marriage“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
Finance“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
Art“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
Business“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”
Finance“What is art? Nature concentrated.”
Art“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.”
Time“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”
Parenting“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”
Society“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”
Business