“Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

Love is life, if it is not death.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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

You can copy someone else’s paper but you’ll never know how you arrived at your answer. 

Next chapter of your life is going to cause some people to wish they had treated you better.

Love what you have, before time teaches you to love what you lost.

Be with someone who makes you laugh when you think you will never laugh again.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

When someone gives you their silence. Listen.

We all need love and a lot of attention.

He lives as though death shall never come to him – but dies in a way as if he were never born.