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.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

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

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

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!

God is always the last resource.