How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
The living are just the dead on holiday
An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.