Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality.”Excerpt from novel You Can't Escape Love by Grace Willows

I can smite you " Nick grumbled. "Anytime I like.

The Bell System is like a damn big dragon. You kick it in the tail and two years later it feels it in its head.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

You know Chuck [Schumer] - always got to be the big macher.

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.