We are rich only through what we give..

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty..

Youth should be a savings bank..

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

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

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 ….

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

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

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

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

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

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..

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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