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From Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck
- It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
- Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them,…
- As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the…
- Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought,…
- No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some…
- You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the…
- Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea…
- To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
- Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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