What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

Never, never have I been loved as I love others!

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.