The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love