Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
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.
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.