Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
What I value most next to eternity is time.
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
The heart has always the pardoning power.