in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.