One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.