Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

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

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.