How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.