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

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

Piety softens all that courage bears.

Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.

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.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

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