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

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.