Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. – Alphonse Karr
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. – Alphonse Karr
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. – Alphonse Karr
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death