Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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.
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.