Alphonse De Lamartine

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!

— Alphonse De Lamartine