I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.