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

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.

To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.