“Jealousy is not love, but self-love.”

“Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.”

“Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.”

“Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.”

“Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.”

“It is only through timidity that states are lost.”

“Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.”

“There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.”

“When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.”

“Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.”

“You correct an error by bringing truth to it.”

“His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.”

“Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.”

“Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.”

“Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.”

“It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.”

“I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.”