(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

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

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

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.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

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