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

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

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.

We are rich only through what we give.