The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.