Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.