"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men"
"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery"
"Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God"
"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human"
"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet"
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise"
"Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides"
"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it"
"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"
"As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer"
"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"
"Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come"
"No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep"
"No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child"
"No one can keep a secret better than a child"
"Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh"
"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman"
"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul"
"My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic"
"Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary"
"It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her"
"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live"
"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like"
"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life"
"It is by suffering that human beings become angels"
"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant"
"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers"
"Genius: the superhuman in man"
"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite"
"Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach"
"Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions"
"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"
