The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.