When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
From Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
A library implies an act of faith.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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