Who understands much, forgives much.

Prayer is the life of the soul.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.