Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.