Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.
The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.