Passion is born deaf and dumb.
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.