Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Maybe taming my tongue will be good for me in the end. But it's pretty hard when you've got a world filled with idiots from Drunkopolis.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

Vegetables....a waste of good plate space

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.