There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. |
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. |
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul |
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. |
Those who live are those who fight. |
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. |
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. |
To love beauty is to see light. |
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother |
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization. |
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time |
To think of shadows is a serious thing. |
Toleration is the best religion. |
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. |
Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second |