“Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.”
“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”
“Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.”
“You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.”
“A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.”
“Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.”
“When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.”
“The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.”
“That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.”
“Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.”
“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”
“Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.”
“It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.”
“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”
“Happiness wishes everybody happy.”
“God knows better than we do what we need.”
“His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.”
“What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”
“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.”
“Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.”
“What is fright by night is curiosity by day.”
“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”
“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”
“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”