We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

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.

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.