Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.

In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.

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

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

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

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.