There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself..

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail..

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today..

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes..

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea..

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to histo….

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men..

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, beca….

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry..

O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers..

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none..

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts..

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could….

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible..

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics..

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life..

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither..

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways..

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line..