Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.