Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. – Sarah Bernhardt
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. – Sarah Bernhardt
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. – Sarah Bernhardt
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. – Sarah Bernhardt
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII