"The supreme happiness of life is the..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

“Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.”

“[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.”

“I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.”

“A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.”

“Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.”

“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”

“Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.”