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

“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”

“However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?”

“True love rules especially through memory.”

“Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.”

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”

“Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.”