The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.

Dignity and love do not blend.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

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.

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

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