How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?
Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.
Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.
in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.
The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.
My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.