I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.