Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Table talk and lovers’ talk equally elude the grasp; lovers’ talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men,between brothers?
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there.
Be 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.
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.