Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]
There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.
A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.
Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
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.
Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.
The egotism of woman is always for two.
Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.
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