Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]
There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.
I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.
And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
Music revives the recollections it would appease.
Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.
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