Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.

Make your best thoughts into action.