history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

there are no nationalities in heaven.

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

Words express only the feelings we know already.

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!

... love always betrays its intentions.

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

I will sail upon a sea of light, My guide above and below the stars.My heart for you is in flightAnd I shall come to you in your arms this night

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

...the way to reform has always led through prison.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

I don't think I should be underestimated.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.