If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

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

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.