Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.