In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: "Help me!"
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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He who abandons the field is beaten.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars, all the beauties of creation.
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Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Life is a voyage.
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
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Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!
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