The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.