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| A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. | 1 |
| A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. | 2 |
| Certain names always awake certain prejudices. | 3 |
| Everything that is exquisite hides itself. | 4 |
| Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. | 5 |
| Friends are rare, for the good reason that men are not common. | 6 |
| Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal. | 7 |
| Friendship? two bodies and one soul. | 8 |
| Generosity is more charitable than wealth. | 9 |
| God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears. | 10 |
| God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. | 11 |
| Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. | 12 |
| Great souls are harmonious. | 13 |
| Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. | 14 |
| In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears. | 15 |
| Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship. | 16 |
| It is impossible to be just if one is not generous. | 17 |
| Length of saying makes languor of hearing. | 18 |
| Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray. | 19 |
| Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. | 20 |
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| Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree. | 21 |
| “Necessarius,” the friend, the man who is necessary. * * * A deep word, an ingenious word, a touching word. When will it be French? | 22 |
| No labor is hopeless. | 23 |
| Philosophers call God “the great unknown.” “The great mis-known would be more correct. | 24 |
| Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate. | 25 |
| Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. | 26 |
| Since, in possessing You, we possess all if we had nothing else, and in not possessing You we have nothing if we had all the rest, oh, my God! I will love You that I may possess You upon earth; and I will possess You that I may love You one day in heaven. | 27 |
| Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. | 28 |
| Success causes us to be more praised than known. | 29 |
| The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. | 30 |
| The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,—to all one says, or does, or writes. | 31 |
| The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us. | 32 |
| The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable. | 33 |
| The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation. | 34 |
| The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes. | 35 |
| “Time restores all things.” Wrong! Time restores many things, but eternity alone restores all. | 36 |
| We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend. | 37 |
| What is slander? A verdict of “guilty” pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defense or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge. | 38 |
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