A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

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

Youth should be a savings bank.

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.