Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.