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

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

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

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

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

I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.

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.