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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to... →
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.