People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
My best experiences with movies have come when I didn’t know what to see.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Paradise is always where love dwells.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.