The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
Alphonse de LamartineTo love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de LamartineBefore this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
Alphonse de Lamartine