The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.