Anatole France

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.