Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

Are you afraid of the good you might do?

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.