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

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.