Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
Alphonse de LamartineThe attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
Alphonse de LamartinePoets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse de Lamartine