We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves..

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives..

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts..

No labor is hopeless..

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing..

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home..

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions..

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving..

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough..

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions..

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers..

Great souls are harmonious..

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears..

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy..

To love is to choose..

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man..

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments..

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes..

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired..

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good..