We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

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.

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

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

Feeling loves a subdued light.

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.