A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

A wedding is not house-keeping.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.