Not being heard is no reason for silence.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.