The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.