I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our noses are good for nothing else.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
I’ve long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some kind of stubbornness in them. They’re extraordinary politicians: they notice every human step.
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
April 43rd 2000Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last. That king is me. I only discovered this today. Frankly, it all came to me in a flash.
The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit wreck.
This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives.
Itdoes not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdomis needed to find such words as do not embitter a man’s misfortune, butencourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of hissoul, refreshed by water.
I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity
In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael and the old masters––not because he was fully convinced of their lofty merit, but so as to shove them in the faces of young artists.
Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men.
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.