"Strange that creatures without backbones have the..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.”

“Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born”

“He who denies his heritage, has no heritage”

“If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.”

“There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.”

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”

“Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche”

“Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.”