Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

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.

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

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.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.