Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 20, 1799 Death: August 18, 1850
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience..
All we are is in the soul..
Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them..
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time..
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case..
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman..
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies..
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of ….
Six weeks with a fever is an eternity..
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources..
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive..
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire..
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always….
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives..
To speak of love is to make love..
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events..
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can..
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!.
The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers..
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring..
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven..