As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.