There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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!

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?