Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

There is a transcendent power in example.