Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

I wasn’t crying, but my heart was crying. I wasn’t feeling, but my heart was bleeding. Now I am crying, but my heart is healing. I am learning that I know nothing.

Every mind should reflect to touch the green of life through trees.

funny how our heartswere designed to loveso fiercely.but break ever so gently.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.