The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.
God has prohibited despair.
Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?
Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack
There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.