To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
Be kind, aim for my heart.
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat. – The Count of Monte Cristo.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
If it is one’s lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.