Alphonse De Lamartine
» Achievement » “There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.”
» Cities and City Life » “If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.”
» Conscience » “A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.”
» Desire » “Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”
» Experience » “Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.”
» Grief » “Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”
» Habit » “Habit with it’s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.”
» Heroes and Heroism » “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
» History and Historians » “Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.”
» Passion » “Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.”
» Poetry and Poets » “Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.”
» Sentiment » “Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.”
» Speakers and Speaking » “The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.”
