A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.