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.

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

The heart has always the pardoning power.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

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

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