Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

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.

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.