Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.