What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

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.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that -- using logic as a weapon.

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments failures and even tragedies and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

I am constantly amazed on every level at how lucky I am.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

There never was a story that was happy through and through.

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.