We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation

I admire my father greatly.

I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

The English think soap is civilization.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly