Alphonse De Lamartine

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Kindness is virtue itself.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

— Alphonse de Lamartine

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace…

— Alphonse de Lamartine