For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.