It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.