Whoever Has Loved Once, Knows All That

I Loved [fairy Stories] So, And My Mother Weighed Down By Grief Had Given Up Telling Me Them. At Nohant I Found Mmes. D'ardony's And Perrault's Tales In Old Editions Which Became My Chief Joy For Five Or Six Years ... I've Never Read Them Since, But I Could Tell Each Tale Straight Through, And I Don't Think Anything In All One's Intellecutal Life Can Be Compared To These Delights Of Imagination.

Charity Degrades Those Who Receive It And Hardens Those Who Dispense It.

Let Us Accept Truth, Even When It Surprises Us And Alters Our Views.

I Say, I Believe, That One Must Love With All Of One's Being.

Talent, Will And Genius Are Natural Phenomena Like The Lake, The Volcano, The Mountain, The Wind, The Star, The Cloud.