Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

Oh! how many times we die before death!

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.

I read what I feel, and not what I see.

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

The logic of the heart is absurd

Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

Peace is a way of constructively handling natural conflict.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.