Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

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.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.