Alphonse de LamartineThinkers

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Enthusiasm springs from the imagination.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

The Flower is but earth vivified.

God is only a dream word to explain the world.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can.

Ink is the transcript of thought.

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

Kindness is virtue itself.

Leadership is personal social control.