Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.