A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

To love is to choose.