You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Don’t send a poet to London.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
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.