Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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.