One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.