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

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.