A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me.