Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
The sewer is the conscience of the city.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Emotion is always new.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Labor is life; thought is light.
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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