Happiness wishes everybody happy.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?