Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

The happy do not believe in miracles.

Collectors are happy people.

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.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.