God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
To love beauty is to see light.
A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.