Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

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