All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.