Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

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

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

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.

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

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!