Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.