If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

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.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.