Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.