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!

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.