Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
Silence is the essential condition of happiness.
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.
I live, which is the main point.
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.