It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.