The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.