Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.