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

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

The heart has always the pardoning power.

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.