Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Sentiment]

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Speakers and Speaking]

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Passion]

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Poetry and Poets]

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Experience]

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Grief]

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Habit]

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Heroes and Heroism]

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [History and Historians]

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Conscience]

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Desire]

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Achievement]

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Cities and City Life]