The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
There is in every village a torch – the teacher; and an extinguisher – the priest.
Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
A library implies an act of faith.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.