The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.