Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.