Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

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

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.

What I value most next to eternity is time.