
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

To love another person is to see the face of God.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A library implies an act of faith.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.