C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. Arsène Houssaye
Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence? 1 Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it. 2 Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens heaven to us in the midst of every tempest. 3 Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view? 4 The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console us. 5 The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth. 6 There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,—one’s self and one’s other self. 7 Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters. 8 We must always have old memories and young hopes. 9 Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day. 10
