Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

Count only on those who believe in your dreams, because our greatness comes in our darkest moments

If it were not for hopes the heart would break.

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

Excuse me, scary people. (Alix)