6 quotes
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
Journal Intime (1882)
Knowledge, love, power,—there is the complete life.
Journal Intime (1882)
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Journal Intime (1882)
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.
Journal Intime (1882)
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
Journal Intime (1882)
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
Attributed Ward's Introduction (1885)