If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

Loving is half of believing.