Don't be alarmed … They are a little annoyed because Spring is late... Leave it to me; I will settle it all. - Maurice Maeterlinck

since the days of the great martyrs, that woman was ready with the same gift of self, the same patience, the same sacrifices, the same greatness of soul and was about — less perhaps in blood than in tears, for it is always on her that sorrow ends by falling — to prove herself the rival and the peer of man.

At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

Pelléas was born in Paris, and I had taken him to the country.