Et puis, tenez, monsieur Marius,je crois que j'étais un peu amoureuse de vous.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but...
Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.
Ne soyons plus anglais ni français ni allemands. Soyons européens. Ne soyons plus européens, soyons hommes. - Soyons l'humanité. Il nous reste à abdiquer un dernier égoïsme : la patrie.
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee...
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
A library implies an act of faith.
The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.
He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures multiply and destroy each other. Huge crabs devour fish and are de...
Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused...
On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Because no water is drawn from it now. Why is no mor...
I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.