To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

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

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.