C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Arsène Houssaye
Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens heaven to us in the midst of every tempest.
Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?
The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console us.
The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.
There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,—one’s self and one’s other self.
Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.
We must always have old memories and young hopes.
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.