Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.