Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, who….

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands..

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting ….

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it..

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past..

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late..

Years do not make sages; they only make old men..

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things..

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there..

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose..

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts..

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour..

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared..

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly..

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months..

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest vei….

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least..

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others..

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference..

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great..

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two..