"All people have three characters, that which..." - Quote by Alphonse Karr

“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”

“A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.”

“The more the change, the more it is the same thing.”

“I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.”

“The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.”

“To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?”

“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”

“When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.”

“Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness”