Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.