Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

A forte always makes a foible.

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?