A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

The law of common sense.

God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.