A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.