Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.