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- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo
- The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. — Gustave Flaubert
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. — Gustave Flaubert
- Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. — Gustave Flaubert