As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.