There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.
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.
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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.
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
... 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.
women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!
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.
Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.
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.
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.
Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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