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

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

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

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.