"Love has features which pierce all hearts,..." - Quote by Voltaire

“History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.”

“The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.”

“People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.”

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”

“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

“A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.”

“We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.”

“The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.”