Patience is the courage of virtue.

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

I love you...", I said to myself and believed it. Finally.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet.

I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.

Can I bite you here, too?

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.