If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

He does not weep who does not see.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.