All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.