Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

And with this frailty of mind, society in general acts like the petulant child in the sandbox, relational aggression occasionally frothing above the surface.

A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?

I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go

It shall dwell roses, from your sweet tears in my heart.

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public.