n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.