winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it.

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

It is the fine rain that soaks us through.