He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another’s virtue.
A wedding is not house-keeping.
Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool’s gold.
She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day’s work.
In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen as yet.
Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.
It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in...
If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
But I have been exposed, I am pursued – by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go.