We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Feeling loves a subdued light.
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
What I value most next to eternity is time.
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
Miracles are God's coups d'etat.
Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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