“Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.”

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

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

Reality in strong doses frightens.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.