Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!