A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene
When one does wrong, one must do it thoroughly.
We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they fail.
To learn to read is to light a fire;
To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live.
There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
Slaying wealth is not the same thing as dividing it.
She talked thus, bent double, shaken with sobs, blinded by tears, her neck bare, clenching her hands, coughing with a dry and short cough, stammering very feebly with an agonised voice. Great grief is...
Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.
No fear, no regrets.
M. de Salaberry was not amused.
It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live.
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
Be happy without picking flaws.
Progress - the stride of God!
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.