Date of birth: 1834-00-00
Date of death: 1905-00-00
Quotes number: 17
Nationality: French
Profession: Clergyman
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
