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.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

The heart has always the pardoning power.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.

To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.