The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

A coat of paint and a quote of words both make cosmetic differences.

An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper.

she thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

You think that fairytales are not true, but life itself is the most magical and mysterious fairytale.

She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear. But she will keep on walking.She will follow the moon.

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.