The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
Life, for me, is living among my friends.
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one’s life.
It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.
The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.