There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
From Victor Hugo
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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