The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

We are rich only through what we give.

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.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

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