Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.