I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.