Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

The more one judges, the less one loves.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

As I am. As I am. All or not at all.