Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

Our friends, the enemy.

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.

Our century is a brutal thinker.

Is it time for your period, or somet

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

Genius is full of trash.

The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.