The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.
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!
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.