Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine Quotes
The actual is limited, the possibilities immense.
Let us savor the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.