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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.