Many littles make a much.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Monoculture is mono for the earth.

It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

Love requires no words.

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.

In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.