Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

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

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.