The heart feels, the head compares..

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes b….

I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she….

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of t….

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the….

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious..

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse..

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he m….

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them..

One does not learn how to die by killing others..

Talent is nothing but long impatience..

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it..

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspect….

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture..

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none..

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory ..

Love decreases when it ceases to increase..

My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it..

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his educati….

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our ….

There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at first perceived. The….