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

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

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.

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.

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